Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
dil@lemmy.zip 2 months agoThey are manufacturing only 35% of consumer ram compared to what they were before? The supply is really going down?
Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
dil@lemmy.zip 2 months agoThey are manufacturing only 35% of consumer ram compared to what they were before? The supply is really going down?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s by choice. Samsung did announce recently that they are going back to consumer ram production instead of trying to compete for low margin big contracts on current gen hbm. At half of current prices, ddr5 is more profitable than HBM even for hynix (leader).
dil@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They have to have more than enough ram bought up at some point, cant be scaling up infinitely